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- Comment on If you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database. 5 hours ago:
I assume OP intended to force daytuh base, but I hear dada base fairly often. I don’t know if it’s more regional or more field related
- Comment on how do i explain “it’s raining” to my boyfriend? 5 hours ago:
My introduction was Xkcd when they hired a mathematician for the weather forecast, then replaced him with a linguist [rollover: and then a software dev]
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 day ago:
You know… I didn’t think about then. Consider the topic fathomed. Thank you
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 days ago:
Interesting. I did get some very mild scratches from keys on my pixel 7 early on. I didn’t think harder glass would come with less scratch resistance. Sure you don’t mean greater tensile strength?
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 days ago:
I swear, most fucked up screens I see are actually temperate glass screen protectors. The cracked protector is proof to them the protector works. I take it as proof a thin piece of glass barely adhered to a flexible chassis is way more prone to failure than the actual screen. I had film protectors until I my pixel 3a. Surprise, screen glass is hard as… Glass.
I cannot fathom why my coworker continually replaces the soft protector on his Samsung flip due to failure at the hinge. . The folding phone. The one that only ever goes in his phone folded.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 days ago:
Pixel 7 here as well. I tried going ceaseless for the first time since I had a Casio Gz’One and dear dog, it’s too damn slippery with the glass back. Regrettably, despite having a case, I managed to crack the screen anyway. It fell face down onto a pointy rock. My first broken screen, ever.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I wouldn’t find it creepy, though I probably wouldn’t mask my surprise well if I heard about it. My parents are 18 years apart. There are some social differences but at some point, they must have liked each other enough. They also have differing interests. They’re free to do their own thing (my dad stays home my mom travels the world). But, they’re not a great match anymore (I have to believe they used to be). All of this has combined into a strenuous situation where my mom is planning for her retirement freedom while my dad is probably headed to some kind of assisted living because she’s not going to stay home as a servant. I hate to be a downer about a relationship that hasn’t even started, but I think it’s important to consider this aspect before things get serious
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 5 days ago:
Alright, I’m fascinated. Ironically, all the villages I know are in NY, but more so NYC/Long Island and the immediate area. I don’t read many signs north of there because the trees look too damn pretty when I visit. I assumed they were legacy names but I’m probably standing corrected
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 6 days ago:
I don’t think anyone really uses the term “village” in the NE unless it already exists as the specific name of the municipality or neighborhood (or they’re being cheeky). Maybe I’m too far into the metro-area suburbs, but not one village I know would classify as a village by OP’s definition. I don’t think Americans believe they have villages because they picture 3rd world huts, medieval towns, or eastern European towns with dirt roads.
- Comment on Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s the emojiis. It’s hard to tell if they’re sarcastic or the author genuinely thinks ❤️📈🏆
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 1 week ago:
A combination of increasing size and reducing capability. I’m not saying we can’t have pocket-sized phones, but 2 decades puts us at about the Motorola Razor and Palm Pilot
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 1 week ago:
I always had the impression that the advanced tech takes a large amount of resources not readily available everywhere. The rebels are scrounging for resources from any place that defects or will trade with them, while the empire is free to demand, raid, and liberate whatever supplies they needed. Part interchange is going to be more important to rebels strapped for material, so they use all similar, basic, reliable stuff. We see lots of shinier, smoother equipment in the cities where luxury is accessible and full of variation. Meanwhile, the vast shiny imperial hangars are comfortably stocked with lots of clean ships for all different roles.
The shitty robots never feel that far off from the US military. There’s all kinds of should-be-obsolete equipment that sticks around just because it fills a role (usually one role) and it still works. Regarding the low quality of their performance and capabilities, I’d imagine microprocessor manufacturing is still hard without perfect conditions. Clean rooms, electron microscopes, and general precision well beyond human visual capability. In our world now, if China were to try to take Taiwan by force and the chip manufacturers really do blow up the facilities, we’re screwed. Globally. It’ll set us back decades because that’ll reset chip size and density. Even if we magically restart facilities that used to be around, they’ll be on the older, larger architectures we can’t fit in ourr pockets
So, basically, what we’ve seen coming from most of the wartime interactions the US has had with most of the receiving countries. HMMV vs Hilux. 15 different standard guns vs AK-47. Unstoppable convoys vs IEDs. Satellite comms vs horseback messengers. And then the USA still roots for Luke & crew…
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 week ago:
Just wanna point out that dietary fat is not the same as body fat. You aren’t made of walnuts, so walnut fat doesn’t go straight to your belly. Just about all fat gets digested and converted into sugar, put in your bloodstream, and then, if there’s excess, converted into body fat. To leave your body, it then gets converted back into sugar, gets used as energy, and then the CO2 goes back into your blood and exhaled.
Solid waste volume has surprisingly little to do with the actual food you eat. It’s primarily dead bacteria, 50-70% by volume. While some food makes it through, it’s mostly the nondigestable things full of fiber. And capsaicin.
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 1 week ago:
I was asking into the void, didn’t mean to single you out. The restaraunt is owned by Mr Krabs, so, presumably, not krab unless krab is to crab like chik’n is to chicken (tofu alternative). Main reason I asked is because I think it was just a fan theory that the secret ingredient is plankton, making Plankton’s goal to plunder the formula a horror plot.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 1 week ago:
The slow, painful death of technological privacy - brought not by war, not by scarcity, but by convenience of another app that saves you 3 clicks per transaction paired with the forced usage of certain functions within an existing environment
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 1 week ago:
I didn’t know they were illegal to use as a human. I use them often to tack on a related sentence fragment when I feel a technical description is getting too long for the common smartphone user - at least, what I perceive to be too long
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 1 week ago:
Under the cheese? I think that’s just light on flat top of the patty rather than a patty-equivalent layer. Unless you mean the sauce.
Is it even beef? I can’t remember if there’s a canon source of the meat
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I just grip the put with a lipless bite looking like squidward trying a krabby patty. The pit isn’t that hard, it’s just mounted in a mush
- Comment on Watching "They Live!" has opened my eyes to how often the movie is referenced, as if I put on the same sunglasses 2 weeks ago:
I’m aware of the illusion, but very few topics feel as meta as this one
- Comment on No movie has a bigger cultural impact than Final Destination 2 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is that it solidified some rules and introduced rules and assumptions about interactions and capabilities.
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- Comment on Day 307 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
BRB gonna throw that initial description somewhere on a LinkedIn post for a remote job
- Comment on No movie has a bigger cultural impact than Final Destination 2 3 weeks ago:
I’d say LOTR is far more ingrained in society. The Matrix gets lots of references within our cohort, but Tolkien set the rules and visuals of a vast amount of fantasy and myth that we now assume to have always existed. I’d also throw in Star Wars above Matrix. But yes, I’d definitely agree any of these rank far higher than a morsel of paranoia that already existed on the road
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 3 weeks ago:
As a rarity on Lemmy, I’m neutral on bitcoin as an investment. Yes, it’s very voltaile, but it does continue to have a record of going up over any 3 year period. So does the traditional stock market. The argument against bitcoin is that it could collapse at any moment and is only propped up by those who keep buying into the pyramid scheme. OK, and? Same can be said about traditional stock markets. The prices are entirely fictional there, too. We have supposed outlier cases like Tesla being massively overvalued, leading to crashes. The same could be said about any other company because the metrics are subjective, feigned as objective because someone made some predictive mathematical formulas. Neither one is actually run by the small-time inveators/buyers like you and me, it’s all operated by massive investment companies. They have an interest in winning and we hope we can hold onto our shares through economic downturns in order to ride the total bullshit profit trains they fuel after each crash.
Back to the question at hand, like any investment, once you sell, don’t look back at what you could have had. You sell the item in exchange for money, then that money buys you something of comparable value at the time of the transaction. It’s hard to do, but that’s the only clean way too look at it.
So from an isolated viewpoint, there’s nothing wrong with selling now at its latest high and turning it into something tangible. But as others have said, make sure the current $1500 value would not be that important to you otherwise. You could ask yourself what you would decide if you simply had $1500 extra in the bank. Would it still be justified? Would you still be comfortable? Would you still be able to handle a reasonable financial setback? I don’t know your life, location, or situation (and don’t want to know) so that’s your decision.
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 3 weeks ago:
Look under any RWD IRS passenger vehicle and you’ll find nearly every single example uses CV axles, not u-joints. U-joints have famously irregular speed variation as the angles change in steady rotation, so the constant velocity joint is far more common for the half axles
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 3 weeks ago:
How do you figure dual front motors would alleviate any of what you said a front diff would need? Dual front motors will still be rigidly mounted to the chassis, requiring flexible couplings. The rear is also independent, requiring the same flexible couplings whether it’s a diff or motors. CV axles all around.
- Comment on Data centers will look ridiculous with tiny future servers. 4 weeks ago:
Which means it doesn’t seem like the limit has been hit yet. For standard devices, the general market has not moved to the current physical limitations
- Comment on Data centers will look ridiculous with tiny future servers. 4 weeks ago:
Only if storage density out paces storage demand. Eventually, physics will hit a limit
- Comment on The more I know about something, the more my claustrophobia starts acting up 5 weeks ago:
In different words, I think we have a similar idea. I said completion, you said mastery. I said no way to apply the new knowledge, you said not enough room to house other topics of interest. So if you want to continuously expand your knowledge to a sufficient degree but don’t want to reach the end, what is the goal?
Lego is great. It gives you literal building blocks to skip the creation of building blocks and go straight to synthesis and assembly. It’s like if you made a painting with a book of stickers of common brush strokes. They’re limited in certain ways like being a square grid for the most part, but build until there’s a physical limitation. Either use some hinges, or start getting involved with other build materials.
General art is something I’ve enjoyed creating but my skill isn’t great. I’ve currently focused on building utilitarian things with a new home. Wish there was a shelf unit of these exact dimensions? Sounds like a trip to buy lumber then. Could be the perfect little monitor riser deck. You could say I’m bad at building things but I prefer to say I’m good at building bad things. They work, they’re just a little ugly.
But back to the main topic. While I certainly promote educational pursuits and productive use of time, if it causes this much stress every time, I think you should consider it might be some type of anxiety. I know the immediate goal is learn more, but where does it go from there? What’s the real underlying goal? It may not be obvious to you. Is it to create success in your career? To establish superiority over your peers? If it was purely a joyous pursuit, I don’t think you’d be posting about it like this. Don’t stop learning, but beware of burnout as well as be considerate towards yourself when you reach some end point in a topic.
- Comment on YKK’s Self-Propelled Zipper: Less Crazy Than It Seems 5 weeks ago:
AI instructions unclear, brass instruments coming right up
Ska intensifies